Film Trippy-Ass Movies That'll Make You Feel Like You're On Drugs

List Rules If you've seen these films, vote up the ones that are the most reminiscent of a crazy drug trip (regardless of how much you liked the movie overall).

Movies have the magical ability to take audiences to the moon, any country in the world, or any time in history. They can also make you feel like you're on drugs. Directors use techniques like distorted images, trippy music, psychedelic colors, and complex, layered montage to achieve a stoned effect. Here are 20 movies that feel like you're on drugs when you watch them.

Some films that feel like a drug trip are straight-up stoner movies. No one is going to wax poetic after viewing Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke, but you may get contact high. Others, like Richard Linklater’s Waking Life, pose existential (aka stoner talk) questions about the mysteries of life. There are movies like Enter the Void, which was inspired by mind-altering substances and uses psychedelic imagery to make audiences feel like they're on DMT. Finally, there are a few films on this list that are really confusing mindf*cks that don’t involve drug use at all.

Movies where you feel high have been around since the early part of the 20th Century. Why do you think there are muchkins in The Wizard Oz? Check out that childhood classic and all the other movies that seem like a drug trip. Then, let us know what you think in the comments section below.

Terry Gilliam's 1998 adaptation of Hunter S. Thompson's literary classic Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas takes spectators on a psychedelic road trip to find the American dream. It's well-known Thompson indulged in large amounts of alcohol and drugs while writing his acclaimed novel. Gilliam was able to successfully translate Thompson's words with distorted, often animated hallucination-filled imagery. Want to get a sense of what an acid trip is like? Let Gilliam show you the way.

Enter the Void is perhaps Argentine writer/director's Gaspar Noé's most well-known movie (his second film, Irreversible, may be as infamous as Enter the Void is famous). The first person narrative takes place in electric, psychedelic, seedy nightclubs of Tokyo, and the story is told from the point of view of Oscar (Nathaniel Brown), a drug dealer and user who is shot by the police. But that's not where his story ends; Oscar floats out of his body, spirit moving from place to place, dropping in on friends and family.

Enter the Void is a three-hour visual exploration of what it's like to take everything from cocaine to ecstasy to LSD. It's also philosophical, sex-filled, and way, way deep. To quote Noé on the origins of his ideas for the film:

One day, in my 20s, I... had done too many mushrooms. I turned on the TV as I was coming down, and it was showing Lady in the Lake, the Robert Montgomery film noir that’s filmed entirely through the character’s eyes. I wasn’t so much hallucinating at that point, but I thought it would be great to make a movie like this and add all the experiences I had... on mushrooms — telepathic perception, strange colors around people, the sense of floating.

If you have no idea what the f*ck's going on in Donnie Darko, you're getting it just fine. In many ways, the weirdness is the point. What exactly is the purpose of sinister, man-sized bunny Frank, who befriends alienated Donnie (Jake Gyllenhaal)? Then there's the time travel thing, and that plane engine. Richard Kelly's cult classic is a stoner's delight, and has produced dozens of websites that exist for the sole purpose of trying to figure out the film's many mysteries. If you think you have it figured it, think again.

Perhaps the most important question the film asks it also answers: What's feces? Baby mice.

If you ever had the desire to know what it's like to shoot heroin or take uppers, but were afraid to take the plunge, check out Darren Aronofsky's sophomore effort Requiem for a Dream. But first, you must know, it's one of the most disturbing movies to hit the silver screen. Aronofsky tells the tale of three young adults hooked on heroin and one aging mother who gets addicted to uppers in an effort to lose weight for a TV appearance that will never happen.

Through the rapid editing style of hip hop montage and multiple CGI shots, Aronofsky shows audiences the bodily effects of drug use and the hellish nightmare of addiction.